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Has anyone quit drinking soda completely?
Posted: Jan 8, 2015
I recently decided to quit drinking soda for the billionth time. I have been a soda drinker since I was around 5-years-old in the 80s as my parents were also soda drinkers. Everyday my Mom would park outside and send me in to get our daily 6-pack of Pepsi. I was known as the Pepsi girl in the drug store we used to get it from. I had always been a small person even after three children (a daughter and twin boys) 5'3" 120 pounds, but after I hit 32 or so, I really started to gain the weight and now weigh 178, basically what I weighed while pregnant for our children. My whole life that I can remember I've had mostly soda to drink with every meal, rarely if ever drinking water.
Since last Friday, 01/02/15, I have only had three 32 ounce sodas (with 1/4 of the cup filled with ice). This is good for me. I've had the three in the past three days. I feel this is going to be an ongoing problem where I need to have at least one 32 ounce one per day. I was even wanting one last night but didn't want to go out late to get one.
As far as health problems, I've been struggling with a vitamin B12 and vitamin D deficiencies that I only found out due to blood tests performed after white matter changes were found on my brain MRI after a car crash. So maybe I've had these deficiencies longer. I also feel that my bones are really achy for a 35-year-old, and I get tired and have muscle aches a lot. I'm also overweight, 5'3, 178 pounds.
Any advice on how to quit for good? My daughter has always hated soda which is great, but my sons try to sneak some whenever I have it in the house. My 10-year-old daughter is supportive and even dumped what soda I had left down the drain for me without asking :) I've admitted to her that I've had these three sodas. I just wish it was easier. Any advice would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance! : )
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I quit over 7 years ago - dont miss it a bit
[ In Reply To ..]I really do not miss it at all. My dentist showed me a picture of "soda mouth" and it scared me silly. I drink a couple coffees each morning and then water the rest of the day. Most always I will add lemon with my CitrusZinger cup, other times I use my AquaZinger cup and make my own flavored waters like strawberry basil, watermelon, or cucumber water. I used to add the leaves of a stevia plant for a little sweetness, but I really dont even need that anymore. If you google ZingAnything, you can find the cups I used. They helped me a lot!
You can do this... you just gotta get over the hump.
I have not quit completely but--sm - anon
[ In Reply To ..]it is a rare thing for us. The biggest thing around here is just not buying it. Soda adds nothing to our lives nutritionally and is expensive. Some of our strategies have been to only have it on weekends or when we go out. A lot of the time it does not even taste good anymore so I figure why bother drinking it.
The one time I really appreciate an ice cold soda is in the heat of the summer when I have been gardening outside. Then it is restorative and I thoroughly enjoy it without guilt. Sometimes I wish I had one but since there is none in the house, and I am not likely to go out and buy just that, I overcome and do without. Good luck in your abstinence.
what I did and not drank a soda/pop in years - nana7
[ In Reply To ..]I didn't like water so when my doc said to cut out all pop I would fill a glass with ice water and flavor it with lemon juice or lime juice and I made it like lemonade or limeaid and I liked it. I continued like that for a couple of months and then I craved a pop (Pepsi) and it was so sweet and made me so thirsty that was the last time I had pop. It has been about 8-9 years since drinking soda and still maybe once a year I get the craving for it, have one sip and grap a large glass of ice water.
Now I just drink my water mostly plain and sometimes will put some lemon slices in it.
But I will say I only lost about 3 pounds after I quit drinking pop. My daughter lost 10 when she quit drinking pop.
Can you taper it down? sm - Not a soda drinker.
[ In Reply To ..]Lucky for me, I never liked the carbonation--in soda or champagne. A friend of mine, however, was "addicted" (her word) to soda. After she was diagnosed with diabetes, she stopped cold turkey. We also figured the soda contributed to weight gain because after drinking soda, she dropped the pounds. Her diabetes is now diet controlled. If stopping cold like that has not worked for you, could you limit yourself to a certain amount daily and reduce that amount weekly? That is how my aunt stopped smoking. It took time, but worked. If you don't like plain water, try flavoring it with fruit or maybe those Milo drops. I have not tried Milo; just a suggestion. Good luck. I understand how hard this as I am trying to drastically cut the amount of sweets I eat, and just started the tapering down method.
Started on Jan 1 - trying to get off Diet Coke
[ In Reply To ..]since my daughter insists I have aspartame poisoning. So far, going well. Good luck to you!
Not off soca - but I use a
[ In Reply To ..]Sodastream to make my own. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with carbonated water, is there? I usually drink it plain or with very light flavorings like lemon.
quit drinking soda - Just me
[ In Reply To ..]I quit many years ago with only an occasional (6 ounces with ice) maybe every couple of years. REALLY! Start by drinking more water (with lemon if you like). If it is the caffeine you need, try the energy packets with caffeine for bottled water. I also drink tea or coffee (a lot of coffee), which probably isn't the best thing either, but at least no soda. Good luck :)
My husband was tremendous in my giving up - sodas every day, my friend another story
[ In Reply To ..]When my husband and I were just going together I bought 2 boxes of Coca-Cola (do not know if 12 or 24 in the box now) each time I went to the store. He every time would say why don't you try water, it is good for you, drink more water" and slowly but surely I started drinking more water and gave up Cokes almost entirely. I will drink a Coke for an upset stomach but that is rare. My friend from high school drinks Cokes 24/7 and I visited her once at 1 home and she went to the garage and the girl had cartons loaded up to the ceiling almost with Cola. She drinks for meals, she drinks in between, riding in the car, never without one. I might have 2 a year now and the smaller Cokes at that.
Soda and pancreatic cancer - SM
[ In Reply To ..]I was doing some research and read how drinking just a few sodas a week can greatly increase one's chance of pancreatic cancer. Wow. Your friend may be putting herself at great risk!
She will probably have a can of Coke put - in her casket when she dies
[ In Reply To ..]because she is just that hung up on them. I have never seen anyone drink as many as she does. She never goes to the doctor (she is in her golden years) and is just what will happen will happen. She is about a size 4 (in case I did not mention that), was a 0 in high school, very petite.
Your friend sounds like me... - Sodaholic
[ In Reply To ..]For as long as I can remember, I've always had a soda by my side. I have one with me all day, in the car, in the store while shopping, on walks, etc. In many pictures of me throughout the years with my kids at the playground, pictures of me as a teenager, there often is a can or cup of soda somewhere in the picture. I was doing great for four days and then started the habit again and have had about four 2 liters and several 32 ounce polar pops in the past six days or so (estimating). I am now drinking unsweetened iced tea, and I'm hoping to stay away from soda permanently again. I am going to keep trying until I stick with it. : )
coke-a-holic - Life after coke...
[ In Reply To ..]does it exist?
I 'quit' coke in about May of 2007. I also gained about 50 pounds at age 32, but likely because I quit smoking--went from 110 lb to 160 in about 18 months. Have been battling those extra pounds for the better part of 2 decades now...
The good news--I don't miss coke a bit. I think if I had a sip, I'd gag. In fact, I know I would because I did, upon having a sip or two over the years at a function that perhaps had only coke or something...I thought, what happened to the taste? But it was likely I who'd changed, not 'the taste.'
The bad news--I traded in the perhaps addiction to coke for that of gingerale. I tried to keep it down to 16/20 ounces of gingerale per day only, however much is in a standard bottle of Schweppes and pretty much did for a few years...even 'pretending' gingerale was champagne...(I don't drink alcohol either.)
For a while drank Lipton Iced tea (is it Lipton?) The blue label...'sweetened,' I believe that one says...there are other label colors, red, yellow...all in the grocery/gas-station/store-type coolers...they are delicious but also 'dangerous.'
For the past year or so, I have taken a particular liking to orange soda, and probably have 2 ordinary-sized bottles a week...
The rest of the time I drink Dasani water or delicious apple CIDER, not juice, from the produce section. Still like gingerale on occasion but wouldn't touch the coke with which I had my love affair for about 40 years.
That's my story...boring and not terribly successful... incidentally not drinking coke or significantly less soda has not made one bit of difference in my weight nor headaches, in particular, for which I thought coke might be responsible...it was not!
No more sodas - Alice
[ In Reply To ..]I had been a Diet Big GULP aholic back in the 1990s until I heard that aspartame possibly causes brain tumors and the phosphoric acid leeches calcium out of our bones. It wasn't easy and took quite a while to detox, but I no longer miss it... I did have chronic headaches that drastically reduced in severity after giving up all products that contain aspartame. Thankfully, I never did drink sodas with regular sugar. I decided if I needed caffeine, I could take that in pill form without the other added chemicals, which I did do for a while, so that I wasn't giving up everything at once.
Life without soda - Tina
[ In Reply To ..]I quit sodas around 8 months ago. It was hard at first but the rewards are tremendous!! Will power and finding something else you enjoy drinking. I have been using Crystal Lite if I just want something other than water and for some reason putting ice in my drinks help me. Hope this helps!!
No soda for over 25 years - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I think it was the sugar, artificial sweetener, and the concern that the phosphoric acid might have an adverse effect on bone density. On rare occasions (once every few years?), I might have a glass of ginger ale, but that has been it. I don't miss it. Luckily, I enjoy drinking plain water or unsweetened iced tea.
Every once in a while, I have diet orange soda or ginger ale - wheres_my_job
[ In Reply To ..]In my 20s I drank a lot of pop, right now I just have ice tea, no sugar, herbal tea, plain - once in a while when I am really stressed, I have a diet orange soda or ginger ale (Vernor's).
But I can always "tell" when I have pop - I just don't feel good, I feel sort of waterlogged. Right now I don't eat at night, and I find that decaffeinated makes it easier to refrain than caffeinated. So definitely what you drink affects other parts of your health, sense of well-being.
Good luck on getting off the soda! I find with changing a habit, reducing gradually helps, then some days completely nothing, and then take the plunge - cold turkey, nothing. But have a substitute ready - ice water, water with lemon, herbal tea, maybe take up knitting (I kid you not).
Try Soda Water/Seltzer - see msg
[ In Reply To ..]I switched over to seltzer (some places call it soda water). I squeeze a little lime in there, and I'm good to go. Sometimes I'll put a splash of juice in there.
FYI: Not to be confused with club soda. Club soda has sodium in it.
Good luck. If it's the caffeine you're hooked on, then that's another issue.
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